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Her presence brought s as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical ht; her moods recalled lotus-eaters and the march in Athalie; her motions, the ebb and flow of the sea; her voice, the viola In a dieneral figure her female deities The new moon behind her head, an old helmet upon it, a diadem of accidental dewdrops round her broould have been adjuncts sufficient to strike the note of Artemis, Athena, or Hera respectively, with as close an approximation to the antique as that which passes muster on many respected canvases

But celestial imperiousness, love, wrath, and fervour had proved to be sodon Her poas limited, and the consciousness of this lidon was her Hades, and since co there she had ih inwardly and eternally unreconciled thereto Her appearance accorded ith this s rebelliousness, and the shady splendour of her beauty was the real surface of the sad and stifled warnity sat upon her brow, and not factitiously or with rown in her with years

Across the upper part of her head she wore a thin fillet of black velvet, restraining the luxuriance of her shady hair, in a hich addedher forehead "Nothing can embellish a beautiful face more than a narrow band drawn over the brow," says Richter Soirls wore coloured ribbon for the same purpose, and sported ested coloured ribbon and hed and went on

Why did a wodon Heath? Budmouth was her native place, a fashionable seaside resort at that date She was the daughter of the bandiment which had been quartered there--a Corfiote by birth, and a fineher trip thither with her father the captain, a e was scarcely in accord with the old ht as his occupation But the land perreat trouble with his child's education, the expenses of which were defrayed by the grandfather, and throve as the chief local , drank, and died also The girl was left to the care of her grandfather, who, since three of his ribs becadon, a spot which had taken his fancy because the house was to be had for next to nothing, and because a ree on the horizon between the hills, visible frolish Channel She hated the change; she felt like one banished; but here she was forced to abide